Development of index to assess the mental health at the community level in developing countries

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K18878
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 58010:Medical management and medical sociology-related
• Research Institution: Gifu University
• Principal Investigator: Nishio Akihiro 岐阜大学, 保健管理センター, 非常勤講師 (90402172)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-03-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 精神保健 / グローバルヘルス / グローバルメンタルヘルス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Due to pandemic of the new coronavirus, we were only able to conduct the survey in Cambodia out of the two countries that we had originally planned (Cambodia and Gambia). In Cambodia as well, local medical care stopped, data was not delivered as scheduled, and incomplete data was delivered much later than originally planned, making it impossible to achieve the planned results within the research period. could not. Still, we could publish ``Evaluating the maturation of mental health systems in developing countries'' in PCN Report (2023) and ``Mental health literacy survey among Cambodia's urban and rural populations: Results from a vignette-based population survey'' (2022) in PLOS ONE. We plan to publish articles from the research results that could not be published within the period.

Free Research Field

精神保健

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

開発途上国におけるメンタルヘルスシステムを評価する指標は、これまで確立しておらず、それが開発途上国においてメンタルヘルスが軽視される原因のひとつとなっている。本研究は、指標を確立するための基礎データとなっており、指標開発の重要な役割を果たしている。